cool intro. even though it isn't much more than spheres, planes and particles it looks really nice, mainly thanks to the textures. and yes, some screens were a bit empty so i'll be waiting for the final.

Runs in WINE in a window fine, tho a tad slow (.003 fps at one point) but still impressive (not perfect, but come on, it's a rushed production and it looks great.) Also the end bit with the bubbles and stuff looked hand drawn, which is just bitchin in 64k (:

very nice... i think it lacks some action at some points, and definitely needs some blurring filter or something (everything looks too sharp, and it's too slow to turn on FSAA)... but the texture generation is very good and the layered effects are not boring.

Pretty. I liked "Contact" too. ;) .. This one even worked correctly on my PC unlike your previous intro (except for one little bug at the beginning of the unzooming). The music wasn't too special, but not too irritating either. All in all this was nice.

hey garg, are that problems caused by lowram or i should blame os ?
i just want to watch it but i'd like to know if i would be able to do it if i install 4-th os on my machine :)
i just dont want to spend time allfornothing

congrats, very nice, perfect textures and fitting music. as a whole prod, it's a bit slow/boring, but definitely a must see. shame, you didn't have enough time...
the thing i didn't like: some fillrate-killer parts are overloading even a radeon9700pro...

firstly, it certainly does weird buggy things. like on my athlon1800+ with gf4ti4200, only the bottom half of the screen is visible (the rest is black) and there are also some black squares over some of the rest of it. for the whole intro (from loading bar onwards).
seems to need more memory than the 256mb ive got as well.. =) like a lot of swapping goes on. oh, and it seems to eat fill rate.

apart from that, the texgen seems really good, a lot better than the project genesis one, its superb. the synth also seems better. generally it looks very pretty. nice design, camerawork etc, and very clean look (except for the bugs of course).

Very nice! It's like The Universe Part I and II in 48k... Excellent visuals, decent music, lots of things to do. I was waiting for a low-altitude planetary flyover though, and it skipped very slightly every three seconds on my machine.

pan: Dunno what's going on; I have P4 2.5 ghz mobile with a Geforce 4 4200 go and 512 mb of main memory, and it works fine here. Except for it slowing briefly every two seconds, as I mentioned earlier.

Hm, ok i try to understand the hype here. For sure, the textures are very good for a 64kb, some nice effects too. But, sorry, it seems i am the only where this intro do not work. For me there is only word for this intro: *boring*. It seems, that my taste is very very strange :) ... Anyway, ofcourse no sucks vote, because this intro do not sucks. Ah, and the music is very unspectacular.

funny how this intro receives such positive feedback... a copule of years ago, people were so fed up with all the stars, nebulas and space/sci-fi-style demos and wilds that any poor fool attempting to release something that contained anything even remotely resembling a star or a planet would be flamed, beat up, puked on and get unpleasant things of varying size and temperature shoved up his ass.

Maybe we should make a final version of our space-themed dreamhack '99 demo, now that everything is forgotten and forgiven ;)

Anyway, some thoughts: MFX does the scientific stuff, and this is more eyecandy, so don't expect physically correct gravitational forces and huge distances.
Space is a very boring place if you don't have a giant looking glass ;)

Hmm.. people whose configs are similar to mine (especially visualice) seem to have trouble getting it running.. I wonder if the gfx driver is a cause? I'm using det. 43.45, the 5x.xx drivers are actually slower for anything below an FX.

well I got nearly the same (AthlonXP2200+, GF4Ti4200, 512megz, WinXP SP1), and it runs just fine(not counting a little stuttering of the video). I tried 44.03 and 52.xx drivers too, and no problems here.

Really not a technological breakthrough, and the whole thing was really slow on my gf-fx5200 athlon xp 1,8ghz, especially in the scenes with much particle blending. In addition to that i got the sound problem. Music was so-so. The design it whats makes this intro float, this really rocks, as always with these conspiracy-prods... but do some more action and exciting camera stuff next time, my kings of flyby :)

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Nice music that fits to the theme. The space theme is overused but at least there is a theme, not just random polygons flying around.

Some fog, some glow, some radial blur... way too fly-by. Many scenes seem like they were built with paper and glue, namely the ones where the planets are flying around (...or is it the camera that's flying ?) Liked the credits part, although I experienced some annoying "lag" spikes there. The ending bubble-scene was also too slow on the FPS side (1.4GHz/R9800Pro).

To put it bluntly, this is not even comparable to the two previous Conspiracy intros. You guys can do a really lot better. Looking forward to what you are to present at Breakpoint 04.

I agree with Castaway that A Place Called Universe is still better... this is still worthy of a thumb though and the best intro in the compo that I've seen thus far. I'm hoping it will really be worth the thumb once they release a final

Where is the final? I want a final, no screenshots! Where is the final? I want a final, no screenshots! Where is the final? I want a final, no screenshots! Where is the final? I want a final, no screenshots! Where is the final? I want a final, no screenshots!

very good texture generation and texture mapping generation. On my computer, the intro is much too slow and jumps backward and forward, so that I wasn't able to get a real opinion of it. Anyway I prefered a place called universe.

crash : loading ok, music start, then a blue star, and after that a black screen
after some seconds, planets move on a black background (very dark)
like round moving slowly, then another black screen and bubbles
(winMe+P4+GeF4ti4200+dx8.1)

so.
bursts of joy rush thru our veins as we proudly present you...BEYOND - the final version
- new scenes and visual upgrades
- fixed engine (should be a LOT faster, without all the jitters)
- texture quality choosing option

Finally! This is great!
However, some scenes still have less than 1 FPS and look messed up on my Radeon 8500... This may have something to do with the newest drivers (v4.3).
In any case, the planet textures are great, the nebulas are also very nice and so is the music. Interesting, that just like the other two intros by Conspiracy this one also refers to something like god or the universe.
I am looking forward to seeing more!

I knew that I would like this when if first came out, but I didn't comment since it didn't work properly on my machine. Now that the final is here, I was able to see it properly for the first time. It is a bit unrealistic, but a beautiful piece of art nonetheless. Certainly the finest Conspiracy prod so far, with the first part of Project Genesis coming in as a close second.

very nice final! it was no smoother than the party version for me, which was already smooth. The new stuff is nice, the sun scene was good (but i could see a texture join on the surface), seems the nebulas look better than i remember, but maybe the zoom out at the end is less fluid than the party version? Still, it rocks :)

I have only the "public final beta" (not the final version) and it's run perfecly on my config. I don't know how many fps rendered but fast enough. (P3-1300mhz-512mb-gf2mx400) The funny thing is that i tested on a p4celeron 2000 with fx5200 and the whole thing is slower than.
But back to the intro: i like it, very much. Great visuals and good music too! Congrats again guys !

though if i want to nit-pick i would say that FarCry runs even smoother than beyond on my puter :p

now i'm curious about the ideas behind beyond (hehe) : Zoom did you read/watch some astrophysical stuff beyond painting and movie artworks ? especially to imagine the end ? because i've always dreamt about a demo in accordance with the superstring theory (http://superstringtheory.com) depicting our univers as a multivers mapped on a dozen of dimensions! your numerous univers-bubbles at the end are a sweet vision of this theory, but i would like to have this idea continued, and to show a multivers which is breathing, waving, vibrating according to gravitation waves, births and deathes of stars, and whose univers-bubbles are colliding, penetrating each other, thus inducing big bangs! : i want a living and sensual multivers, full of life and sex! :D

i was just waiting and waiting...
nothing else just biiiiiig planets and some environmental things :)

looked cool but i've expected more.
and the music was totally out of range.. seems like gfx has a really good quality, music is a bit mediocre in the view of the introtool :) but i'm sure they'll be on the same quality soon :)

Amazing work! The changes in the final are pretty much all for the better, and it no longer skips during scene changes (except for the one to the green planet). The clouds are really cool and I still wish we could see more of that planetary ring system...

Zest: I always had been a big sci-fi fan, and since Sunspot was a total failure, we wanted to show that we can do this better ;)

If you saw "A place called universe" then you know what I think about a multiverse. This is kind of a connection between the two intros.
But to be honest, the idea for the "bubble" scene comes from the animation film "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas" where in one place the goddess Eris plays with a bubble-universe. (Oww now the magic is gone... :D )

About part 2... not in the near future. My space-fantasy is now exhausted ;)

Crusader: I really tried to make that ring-flyover longer, but it didn't fit anywhere else in the timeline, and you must know it could be only a slower flight, because only a small part of the ring exists, and this is still the scene with the highest polycount. (150k faces I think)

still not working correctly at my system. but that's my vidcard's fault. it pauses every now and then for ~10 seconds...
anyways no thumb up, as it is beautiful, but too slow for me (even with the pauses ignored)

don't remember if I already quote that demo. Anyway, it *rocks* !! Really good design, nice idea, fits in 64kb. Backgrounds pictures are amazing. And last but not least, music is *really* good for the demo ! (Love the end theme when zooming back).
Make me think that "newskool" coders are good guys ! :-)

Cannot watch the final, SNS also doesn´t work for me. Switches resolution, still displays desktop, is obviously caching something then back to desktop and original res, no go. Radeon9500pro (Medion 9600 XT, its an overclocked 9500pro), 1024megs, XP, DX9, latest Omega. Old version works like a charm.

neither the final nor the party version works for me.. and the same goes for saturday night scener and the other intro released in 2003.. I get the same application error as soon as i execute the .exe on all 3 productions.. other software and demos work fine.. seems like there is a problem in the common framework code, since i get the same error...

When I get older losing my hair
many years from now
will you still be sending me a valentine
birthday greeting, bottle of wine
If I'd been out till quarter to three
would you lock the door
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four

Slick! Very nice visuals and fitting music. I remember that at the time of release a friend of mine whom I had shown some CNS intros before (he's not a scener) came to me and was pretty excited. He asked me if I had already seen the new "fucking awesome" CNS intro. :D

As of August 2007 this is still the most breathtakingly beautiful intro ever released! Fantastic effort - and here is my thumb!

--> Gargaj, Boyc
Btw, this intro has the same strange errors on newer Geforce cards (here: 8600 GTS) as "The Prophecy": flickering artefacts and some elements are missing. When I use the trick with the Win98 comp. mode, everything looks fine, but the intro crashes my XPsp2 when exiting :(. Is there any other workaround or any fix you would suggest??

keito: We looked into that, but this was the very first release we did with aDDict2 and didn't think to archive that state of the source code. Due to some later changes to the texture generator basically the original source has been lost, so making an updated version is not possible anymore. We did however manage to hack the exe in a way that allowed us to create the hd youtube video in the description. It's that's not the real thing, but it's something :)